A fight against pseudo-science is held by many scientists of the 20th century. In this book, Carl Sagan provides a skeptical analysis of several kinds of superstition, fraud, pseudoscience and religious beliefs, such as gods, witches, UFOs and faith healing. However, based on "some experimental support," Sagan calls for serious scrutiny of a handful of seemingly inexplicable phenomena such as reincarnation and psychokinesis, not because he regards them as likely to be true, but because anomalous data deserves close scientific study.

Title: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Author: Carl Sagan
Publisher: Random House, 1996
Genre: Popular Science, Social Psychology, Non-fiction
Duration: 14.5 hours
Read by: Michael Page
Quality: 96 kb/s
Format: mp3
Size: 550 mb
Language: English

Contents
Preface: My Teachers
1. The Most Precious Thing
2. Science and Hope
3. The Man in the Moon and the Face on Mars
4. Aliens
5. Spoofing and Secrecy
6. Hallucinations
7. The Demon-Haunted World
8. On the Distinction Between True and False Visions....
9. Therapy
10. The Dragon in My Garage
11. The City of Grief
12. The Fine Art of Baloney Detection
13. Obsessed with Reality
14. Antiscience
15. Newton's Sleep
16. When Scientists Know Sin
17. The Marriage of Skepticism and Wonder.
18. The Wind Makes Dust
19. No Such Thing as a Dumb Question . . .
20. House on Fire
21. The Path to Freedom
22. Significance Junkies
23. Maxwell and the Nerds
24. Science and Witchcraft
25. Real Patriots Ask Questions

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